Corporate Gun Lobby Gaslighting

Corporate Gun Lobby Gaslighting: the NRA’s news outlet blatantly lied about Comey hearing to protect Trump. According to Media Matters for America, the National Rifle Association’s news outlet NRATV spun former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony to the Senate intelligence committee to President Donald Trump’s advantage by flatly lying about what Comey said. After spending $30 million to elect Trump, the NRA has promised they will be “Donald Trump’s strongest, most unflinching ally.” That allegiance apparently extends to fabricating quotes from a public hearing for the benefit of the president.

Clergy from across Chicago unite to highlight solutions to reducing gun violence. Live Free Chicago, a grassroots organization comprised of black churches striving for economic and political liberation, hosted a powerful conference to highlight solutions to violence and mass incarceration in Chicago. Marginalized communities, like black americans, are disproportionately impacted by gun violence. Click here to view a Facebook Live video of the conference.

National League of Cities speaks out against Federally Mandated Concealed Carry. The National League of Cities, a membership organization of over 1,600 cities across the country, highlighted the difficulties for local governments that would arise from the NRA’s Federally Mandated Concealed Carry proposal. There is no national standard for concealed carry, and this proposal would not create one. Instead, it would institute a race for the bottom, and in one version of the bill, institute permitless and school carry nationwide.

An active-shooter training exercise at an Indiana elementary school in January left teachers with welts, bruises and abrasions after they were shot with plastic pellets by the local sheriff’s office conducting the session.
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A security contractor tasked with overseeing the destruction of crime guns at an ATF facility was arrested for allegedly diverting them to the black market instead—and was a no-show in court this week. https://t.co/BbnJVCkEp9

Today marks one year since Jaelynn Wiley was shot and killed at Great Mills High School. The young people of @MFOLMD honor her memory every day by fighting for meaningful gun reform that would prevent another tragedy.
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